Rusticity
567. Rusticity
- American Gothic Grant Wood’s painting of stern Iowan farming couple. [Am. Art: Osborne, 1215]
- Audrey awkward rural wench who jilts a countryman for a clown. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare As You Like It ]
- Caudill, Boone epitome of the mountain man. [Am. Lit.: The Big Sky ]
- Compleat Angler, The fishing, hunting, and philosophizing in rural surroundings. [Br. Lit.: Izaac Walton The Compleat Angler ]
- Currier and Ives makers of colorful lithographs of scenes of nature and outdoor recreation. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 699]
- North Woods forest and lake region; setting for lumberjack legends. [Am. Lit.: Hart, 607]
- Petticoat Junction farce set in rural America. [TV: Terrace, II, 205–206]
- shtetl any small-town Jewish settlement in East Europe. [Jewish Hist.: Wigoder, 552]
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